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A player, 26 April 2011
Last one Chi death? can they die if they have - TOKENS Chi? example.
Random personality with -90 C tokens. does the last one prevent him from dying? i said no cause chi death isnt my ability thats killing him its a rule. the perminent +4 the personality gets can that be effected by justly earned victory? even if it was played a few turns ago?
Edit: Well none of that really answers my first question, so ill give a better example. Ujisato or isawa fosuta - exp gives the Personality that has been targeted with the last one - chi tokens equal to his chi does he die?
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Zen Faulkes (rules official), 28 April 2011
Last one Chi death? can they die if they have - TOKENS Chi? example.
Random personality with -90 C tokens. does the last one prevent him from dying? i said no cause chi death isnt my ability thats killing him its a rule. the perminent +4 the personality gets can that be effected by justly earned victory? even if it was played a few turns ago?
Edit: Well none of that really answers my first question, so ill give a better example. Ujisato or isawa fosuta - exp gives the Personality that has been targeted with the last one - chi tokens equal to his chi does he die?
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The Personality's destruction from zero chi has to be handed on a case by case basis.
http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Effects#Source_of_effects: "A Personality’s destruction for having 0 Chi (Chi death rule) comes from the cost or effect that last gave the Personality a Chi penalty, or from the rulebook if there was no such effect." (Emphasis added.)
It depends. Usually the source of Chi death is a card effect. But not always.
Permanent force bonuses do not mean "cannot be changed or undone." They mean "past the end of the turn." (http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Glossary_P-Q#Permanent.28ly.29) The Last One's bonus can be negated by Justly Earned Victory.
A player, 29 April 2011
Ujisato or isawa fosuta - exp gives the Personality that has been targeted with the last one - chi tokens equal to his chi does he die?
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 29 April 2011
Ujisato or isawa fosuta - exp gives the Personality that has been targeted with the last one - chi tokens equal to his chi does he die?
http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Non-card_physical_game_elements: "The source of tokens’ effects... is the card or other source that created them."
The source of the Chi penalty is the token, which is a card effect, which is negated by The Last One.